What if the Union chose to let the Conderate South go?
Hi. Im vehemently anti confederate anything and I think the articles of secession speak for themselves in the terribleness of the barely five year cause.
Honestly, my interest in writing this question comes from a random encounter with a Southern leftist. I don't know if theres a rule about this. This isn't meant to harass them. In fact, they said they wanted to make a post here to get other opinions.
--->Hi! I'm a left-wing Southerner who thinks that the South should have been allowed to secede, not because I approve of slavery, but because I disapprove of the means by which it was abolished, in that it radically altered the country into an authoritarian nightmare from which we have yet to awaken.
That was the users opinion.
That said, the South screwed themselves out of representation by seceding imo. They had cost the US man power and money in one of our first forever wars, although it had moments of peace sprinkled within, The Seminole wars. And they were courting Colonial aims of their own
They dragged the country down by perpetuating a terrible abusive economic situation that left nearly every slave holder in debt at all times, and their insistence on defying the emancipation proclamation with Jim Crow, vehement protests over the civil rights act, and general unhappiness with America since, are something I veiw as a continuous string of behavior up to the present day.
The failure of the reconstruction era screwed the rest of the country after imo.
So. What would have happened if the Union chose differently? Would the civil war have been a given, just later?